Day 19: Diary Entries 77-78

Saint Faustina’s Diary in a Year

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🗓️ 21 April 2024

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Summary

"My mind became dimmed in a strange way; no truth seemed clear to me," St. Faustina writes. Listen in as Fr. Joseph Roesch, MIC, reads from this modern spiritual classic.

The Lord’s “Secretary of Divine Mercy,” St. Faustina, wrote what has become a modern-day spiritual classic — a blueprint for living a sacramental life in union with Jesus Christ. For anyone who may think the Diary is too thick and formidable, Fr. Joseph Roesch, MIC, has the solution. Join him for a few minutes each day as he reads from the Diary and offers commentary. Over the span of one year, you will have “read" the Diary, beginning to end, and absorbed its rich teachings.

To order a copy of the Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska, visit ShopMercy.org.

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0:00.0	Join me, Father Thaddeus Langton, as I lead a 40-day consecration to the Immaculate Conception.
0:05.4	Follow along with my book, Shining and Spotless Splendor, Consecration to the Immaclet
0:09.8	Conception, live on Facebook at the Marion Helpers page, Instagram at the Divine Mercy,
0:16.7	and at divine mercyplus.org at 9 a.m. Eastern Time every morning.
0:25.5	Together, let's consecrate our lives to the Holy Spirit through the love and support of our Lady the Immaculate Conception. Order my book, Shining in Spotless Splendor,
0:29.8	consecration to the Immaculate Conception, in print, or as an e-book at shopmercy.org.
0:35.5	That's shopmercy.org. God bless you.
0:40.6	Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception.
0:45.5	Thank you for joining us as we continue with our year-long journey, reading the diary of
0:50.0	St. Maria Faustina Kavalska from beginning to end. Today we take up from where we left off,
0:56.6	beginning with diary entry number 77. Darkness and Temptations. My mind became dimmed in a strange way.
1:09.2	No truth seemed clear to me. When people spoke to me about God,
1:13.9	my heart was like a rock. I could not draw from it a single sentiment of love for him. When I tried,
1:21.3	by an act of the will, to remain close to him, I experienced great torments, and it seemed to me that I was only provoking God
1:29.7	to an even greater anger. It was absolutely impossible for me to meditate, as I had been accustomed
1:35.6	to do in the past. I felt in my soul a great void, and there was nothing with which I could fill it.
1:43.5	I began to suffer from a great hunger and
1:46.5	yearning for God, but I saw my utter powerlessness. I tried to read slowly, sentence by sentence,
1:55.0	and to meditate in this way, but this also was of no avail. I understood nothing of what I had read.
2:03.5	The abyss of my misery was constantly before my eyes.
2:08.0	Every time I entered the chapel for some spiritual exercise,
2:11.8	I experienced even worse torments and temptations.
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